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Why this rock is probably not a meteorite:

The finder thought it was a lunar meteorite. Some of the white clasts, however, are vesicular. Lunar meteorites don't have vesicular clasts.

What is it?

Probably sopme kind of volcaniclastic rock.

See also: Some Meteorite Realities

Prepared by:

Randy L. Korotev

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

Please don't contact me about the meteorite you think you’ve found until you read this and this.

e-mail: korotev@wustl.edu